Dave Byrnes
Barack Obama breaks ground at his own presidential center
The Jackson Park site was selected due to its proximity both to the South Side neighborhoods where Barack Obama began his political career and Michelle Obama grew up, and to the city’s famous Museum of Science and Industry.
Smoke from western wildfires drifts to Midwest and East Coast
The skies over Chicago were a dark hazy gray Wednesday morning as smoke from distant West Coast fires settled over the Windy City. Other parts of the nation far removed from this year's fires in the West are getting some of the smoke.